LuCE REPORT ON LUNG CANCER Challenges in lung cancer in Europe
LuCE-Report-final
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TOP-4 CHALLENGES<br />
• Provide quality smok<strong>in</strong>g cessation services and support<br />
• Promote smok<strong>in</strong>g prevention policies such as advertis<strong>in</strong>g and market<strong>in</strong>g<br />
bans for tobacco control or higher taxes<br />
• Promote early palliative care resources<br />
• Offer emotional and social support to patients and caregivers<br />
• Access to rehabilitation services<br />
• Public and occupational health policies to reduce exposure to carc<strong>in</strong>ogens<br />
• More accurate and comprehensive <strong>in</strong>formation for patients<br />
• Control measures to prevent air pollution<br />
• Provide a facilitator/coord<strong>in</strong>ator of the treatment<br />
• Higher <strong>in</strong>vestments <strong>in</strong> research for more effective and safer treatments<br />
• L<strong>in</strong>k the prices of medic<strong>in</strong>es to the health benefits they produce (added value for patients)<br />
• Accelerate the referral from primary care to specialists<br />
• Ensure a high level of expertise and knowledge <strong>in</strong> <strong>lung</strong> <strong>cancer</strong> care centres<br />
• Improve screen<strong>in</strong>g for people at high risk<br />
• Harmonize HTA bodies to set equal decisions about the same medic<strong>in</strong>e<br />
• Raise awareness and education on the symptoms among the general<br />
public<br />
• Promote the collection of systematic data on expenditures <strong>in</strong> <strong>cancer</strong> care<br />
• Decentralized solutions and flexible payment procedures<br />
(AND SOME GLOBAL SOLUTI<strong>ON</strong>S)
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